Psalms 60:1
Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for the inscription of a title, to David himself, for doctrine,
Douay-Rheims 1899
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1 Samuel 4:17And he that brought the news answered, and said: Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter of the people: moreover thy two sons, Ophni and Phinees, are dead: and the ark of God is taken.
1 Samuel 13:11And Samuel said to him: What hast thou done? Saul answered: Because I saw that the people slipt from me, and thou wast not come according to the days appointed, and the Philistines were gathered together in Machmas,
1 Samuel 31:1And the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gelboe.
2 Samuel 8:3David defeated also Adarezer the son of Rohob king of Soba, when he went to extend his dominion over the river Euphrates.
2 Samuel 8:13David also made himself a name, when he returned after taking Syria in the valley of the saltpits, killing eighteen thousand:
2 Samuel 10:16And Adarezer sent and fetched the Syrians, that were beyond the river, and brought over their army: and Sobach, the captain of the host of Adarezer, was their general.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 60:1
After many psalms which David penned in a day of distress this comes which was calculated for a day of triumph; it was penned after he was settled in the throne, upon occasion of an illustrious victory which God blessed his forces with over the Syrians and Edomites; it was when David was in the zenith of his prosperity, and the affairs of his kingdom seem to have been in a better posture then ever they were either before or after. See 2 Sam. viii. 3, 13; 1 Chron. xviii. 3, 12 . David, in prosperity, was as devout… Read the whole commentary →